This cover was posted in Honolulu on Oahu
during the early days of the Hawaiian
Republic.

On January 17, 1893, a Committee of Safety
took possession of the government building,
issued a proclamation declaring a monarchy to be abrogated, and
established a provisional government, to exist "until terms of union
with the
United States of America shall have been negotiated and agreed upon".

This was, in effect, a successful
revolution by a group with close ties
to the missionary families and business and agricultural interests
who were interested in transferring the islands to American rule.
The Provisional Government provided stamps by overprinting stamps of
the Kingdom of Hawaii in red with
Provisional
GOVT.
1893
This particular stamp (Scott 59) was an overprint of the 5 cent
ultramarine of 1882 (Scott 39).

The stamp was cancelled with a duplex CDS
and oval barred killer.

The letter's destination was Funchal in
the Madeira island group off the northwest coast of Africa.
The islands were Portuguese possessions.

Funchal, a city and adminstrative
district, had only recently (1892)
begun to issue its own stamps.
Hawaii seems to have appealed to Madeirans as I have seen other covers
between the two remote locations.
Perhaps the similar latitudes and island existence appealed to
seafarers from Madeira.

The routing was through Lisbon where it
arrived and was given a
transit mark dated June 17.

The cover's arrival in Funchal was marked
by CDS on June 22.

To have accomplished such a rapid transit
suggests
that the cover went via steamer to the United States,
via railroad across the United States, and
then across the Atlantic via steamer to Lisbon and thence to Madeira.